Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - A RULE FOR LIFE | Powerful Motivational Speech

Episode Date: December 13, 2023

"It may get worse before it gets better, but it WILL get better" - unknown In today's episode, I'm tackling the idea that things often get worse before they get better. Every new journey begins with a dip into vulnerability and discomfort. I'm reminded of the visual of a wavy line, where each new peak is preceded by a trough, a necessary low before the high.  This is the essence of any challenge—when you're riding the high of your current wave, it seems counterintuitive to dive into the next trough willingly. But that's the story of many greats we admire, from Walt Disney's initial failures to Steve Jobs' early struggles with Apple. They all understood that to reach new heights, they had to start from a new bottom. It's about being willing to fight through the valleys of despair, understanding that discomfort is not weakness but a decision to grow. Embracing the idea that it always gets worse first means accepting that we are enduring the present for a better future. This episode is a reminder that the lows we face now are paving the way for the peaks ahead and that our willingness to embrace vulnerability today can lead to our greatest triumphs tomorrow. Join my free newsletter: eddiepinero.com/newsletter

It always gets worse first. I was recently at a mastermind where someone made this point, and as hard as I tried, I couldn't really poke holes in it. For the simple fact that everything new requires some vulnerability, some discomfort that was previously non-existent. Or in other words, you have to endure turbulence prior to calm. So imagine a wavy line. on a piece of paper or whiteboard, where the top of each wave is slightly bigger than the one before it.

Right? So right before that new wave occurs, there is necessarily a low point or a trough. A point that's absolutely, without a doubt, lower than the top of the previous wave. And this, to me, summarizes the battle we fight, right? When you're comfortable, when you're at the top of the little wave you're currently riding, it almost feels self-defeating to willingly jump off and land yourself at the bottom of some new, soon-to-be future wave. Every new mountain means starting at the bottom, a new base. Every acquisition means letting go of something we once knew and understood. The question is, are you willing to fight through. Are you willing to hang out in the trough at the bottom, right, wander that

valley of despair? And that's, by the way, what we're talking about when we talk about, for example, Walt Disney being fired, being called unimaginative, and struggling to get the world to understand his Mickey Mouse cartoon. That's what we're talking about with Steve and Was with Apple. That's what we're talking about with Lincoln and the constant political rejection before finding stability and success. These stories have become almost folklore. And all of them share the same characteristic, that the main players willingly accepted the fact that it would get worse before it got better.

All of them were willing to make a trade. The bottom now for a chance at the top, later. Not only is this pragmatic, but it also aids the mind throughout the process. It helps us understand and internalize what we're going through. You know, that initial instinct to think, why me, to shake our fists at the world and fall into the role of victim? That goes away when we know that, you know, we're enduring turbulence now for something better. When we're We know that this is merely the cost of admission. You're not at the bottom of the wave because you have to be or even because it's fun to hang out

there. You're there because something greater is coming. And a human's desire to delay gratification is a superpower. We all know that. Things get worse before they get better. So remember next time you're out in the world. dealing with adversity. Technically, you don't have to be there.

You could be hiding away, letting life slip by. But instead, you've made the decision, the courageous decision to better yourself. What you're enduring will ultimately become your strong point. And so don't villainize or demonize that, cherish it, hold on to that. Because we need to get beyond the notion. the discomfort is weakness. Discomfort is a decision,

a bold decision that you should be proud of. Again, you could live your entire life running from the painful things, hiding from the discomfort of growth. But then you'd also be forfeiting that next wave. You'd be so hell-bent on escaping the notion that it always gets worse first, that instead never let your life get better to begin with.

There is no bond. There is no bottom or trough on earth more detrimental to the human soul than stagnation. We need to be moving, marching forward, even when we don't know, right, into the unknown, into the night, fighting to get to the ceiling, then gladly allowing that ceiling to become our next floor. It always gets worse and thank God. That's where we are made. condition. That's the buffer that separates mediocrity from greatness.

That forces us to ask the important questions. Do I really want this? And if the answer is yes, let it get worse first. Let it be tough out of the gate. Grant yourself that gift of vulnerability. because a few waves from now, you'll be on a different level. Physical, spiritual, personal. A few waves from now, the quote-unquote worst parts

will be what stand between who you are and who you were. And that decision, the decision to step out and face them, will have been perhaps the best decision you've ever made.